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William Bentley was pastor of the East Church in Salem Massachusetts from 1783 intil his death in 1819. There, he ministered to the sailors, widows, artisans, and captains of the waterfront. He offered his flock a new version of Christianity, a faith grounded by the dual pillars of a benevolent deity and salvation through moral living. Unlike deists, he believed in the Biblical God and in the essential Christian narrative. Unlike the more moderate liberals, he alsobelieved that after the resurrection of Christ, God has chosen to stand back and watch, without interference, the unfolding of the Christian message.Bentley's life, ministry, and thought allow an original exploration not only of theology and philosophy but also of ideology: of the social politics of race and class and gender, the ecclesiastical politics of establishment and dissent, the ideological politics of republicanism and classical liberalism, and the party politics of Federalism and Democratic-Republicanism.

Fundamentalists in the City is a story of religious controversy and division, set within turn of the century and early twentieth-century Boston. It offers a new perspective on the rise of fundamentalism, emphasizing the role of local events, both sacred and secular, in deepening the divide between liberal and conservative Protestants.

Missionaries taught the Ojibwe to sing hymns translated into their language, both as a means of worship and to eradicate their "Indianness". This study examines how a native American people has drawn on the resources of ritual to negotiate identity and survival within the structures of colonialism.

Nathaniel Taylor was arguably the most influential and the most frequently misrepresented American theologian of his generation. While he claimed to be an Edwardsian Calvinist, very few people believed him. This book attempts to understand how Taylor and his associates could have counted themselves Edwardsians.

Between 1820 and 1860, American social reformers pioneered a "politics of identification", which invited people to identify with society's victims, seeing in their sufferings the image of God. This work traces this idea through various kinds of literature, from novels to slave narratives.

Religion in America has come to be regarded as obsessively concerned with sex and as uniformly supporting the conservative agenda of "family values". The 13 essays in this book aim to correct this distortion showing the complexities and conflicts that exist between and within the various religions.

This is an exploration of the interaction between African American religions and Jewish traditions, beliefs, and spaces. The collection's argument is that religion is the missing piece of the cultural jigsaw, and black-Jewish relations need the religious roots of their problem illuminated.

A history of the translation of Holy Writ in America. Recurrent controversies over various translations, the author argues, tell us less about the linguistic issues dividing conservatives and liberals than about the theological assumptions they have long held in common.

An examination of the role of religion in the proceedings, theories, ideas and goals of the Continental Congress. Congress's religious activities, Davis shows, expressed an unreflective popular piety, and by no means a determination of the revolutionaries to entrench religion in the federal state.

'A Controversial Spirit' offers its own perspective on the origins and nature of southern evangelicalism. Examining conversion narratives, worship, polity and rituals, as well as more formal doctrinal statements in creeds and sermons, the author is able to provide a nuanced portrait of southern evangelicals.

Lemuel Haynes's writings constitute the fullest record of a black man's religion, social thought, and opposition to slavery in the late-18th and early-19th century. Drawing on both published and rare unpublished sources, John Saillant here offers the first comprehensive study of Haynes and his thought.

It has been thought that Edwards's polemical arguments were aimed against Arminianism - which denied the Calvinist idea of predestination. The author argues that Edwards's real target was a more influential one, namely deism - the belief in a creator God who does not intervene in His Creation.

This is a collection of sixteen essays about the Muslim community in North America, by some of the leading American scholars of Islam. They focus on the ways in which American Muslims adapt their institutions as they become an indigenous part of America.

This text argues against the conventional idea that Protestantism ceased to play a role in American higher education around the end of the 19th century. It shows that Protestantism was modified to conform to the educational values and intellectual standards of the modern university.

Findlay examines the relationship between the the mainstream Protestant Churches and the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. His study makes clear the highly significant contribution made by liberal religious groups in this turbulent and historic decade of social change.

This interdisciplinary collection is the first book to address the organizational aspects of religion. Topics include the historical sources and patterns of US religious institutions, contemporary patterns of denominational authority, and the interface between religious and secular institutions.

This is an exploration of the interaction between African American religions and Jewish traditions, beliefs, and spaces. The collection's argument is that religion is the missing piece of the cultural jigsaw, and black-Jewish relations need the religious roots of their problem illuminated.

In this work, the author explores the rapid growth of American Methodism following the Revolutionary War. He argues that Methodism's style, tone and agenda became part of the fabric of American life, influencing all other mass religious movements and areas unconnected to the church as well.

In Conjuring culture, Theophus H. Smith attempts to construct a more adequate analysis of African-American culture by using concepts derived from that culture. He bases his critique on the central concept of "conjure", and contends that Biblically-based themes, stories, and especially typology have crucially formed African-American culture as they have been simultaneously reformed and deployed by African-Americans.

This work offers a cultural history of Universalism - the idea that an all-good and all-powerful God saves all souls. Ann Bressler argues that Universalism began as a radical, eschatological, and communally-oriented faith and only later became a progressive and individualistic one.

Warren shows how a group of Protestant theologians forged a theology of international engagement for America in the 1930s and 40s which informed the public rationale for the United States participation in World War II and which stimulated American leadership in establishing organisation which promoted world order.

Longfield explores a bitter theological controversy that wracked the Presbyterian Church in the 1920s and 30s. By examining the lives and thought of six of the major protagonists he seeks to provide a fuller understanding of the religious and cultural issues in the struggle.

Sherman argues that Latin America's Protestant revival is likely to help the prospects for the region's economic growth and democratic development. Focusing on Guatemala's rural poor, she explains how conversion from animism to a Biblically orthodox world-view has improved the domestic welfare and economic status of many families.

This study offers a new interpretation of the puritan 'Antinomian' controversy and a skilful analysis of its wider and long term social and cultural significance. Breen argues that the controversy both reflected and fostered larger questions of identity that would persist in puritan New England throughout the 17th century.

The Revival of 1857-58 was a widespread religious awakening, most famous for urban prayer meetings in major metropolitan centres across the United States. This is a critical analysis of the revival which has often been overshadowed by earlier "great awakenings".

Rufus Anderson was a central figure in the formation and implementation of missionary ideology in the middle 19th century. In telling his story, Harris looks at 19th-century American history and the relationship between American culture and those of what later came to be known as the third world.

This book offers a broad-based study of Jonathan Edwards as a religious thinker. Much attention has been given to Edwards in relation to his Puritan and Calvinist forebears. McClymond, however, examines Edwards in relation to his eighteenth-century intellectual context. Among the topics considered are spiritual perception, metaphysics, contemplation, ethics and morality, and apologetics.

In narratives reflecting three years immersion in the culture of two Protestant seminaries - one evangelical, the other mainline - the authors explore the role of culture in educating and forming students. In doing so, they not only illuminate the structure and process by which culture educates and forms, but also provide insight into important dynamics of American religious life.

This book explores an undercurrent of interest in Mary as mythical Madonna that has persisted in American life and letters from fairly early in the nineteenth century into the later twentieth.

This volume offers a history of three generations of Baptist and Methodist clergymen in 19th-century Virginia and, through them, of the congregations and communities in which they lived and worked.